PART ONE - REVELATION KEY CONCEPTS

Words to understand: Yahweh = LORD, the Eternal; Yahshua = Jesus; Elohim = Mighty one, God, or god (there are false gods); MK = Millennial Kingdom, the 1000 year reign with Yahshua.

 

REV 1 – GREETING AND VISION OF YAHSHUA

1.1 - Revelation = Greek = apokaloopsis = a disclosure of truth, an instruction, unveiling. Some call it the Revelation of John. It is really the revelation of Yahshua the Messiah. The book contains 285 quotations and references to the OT.

1.2 - bare record = to be sure, tell, understand, or wish. Testimony = record, report, witness, evidence given.

1.4 - to the seven assemblies – addressed to the seven assemblies in Asia Minor (Turkey). All these prophecies have not been fulfilled. They can apply to future assemblies.

1.6 – kings and priests = to be a kingdom and to be kings and priests: Ex 19.6; Isa 61.6; Rev 20.6

1.8 – Almighty = the all ruling El in the Greek = an absolute and universal sovereign

1.10 – Yahweh’s Day – the KJV translates “the Lord’s day.” This phrase is incorrectly applied to a weekly day of worship. Occurring 20 times in the Scriptures, the phrase refers to the Messiah’s return at the sound of the final trumpet. Ref: Joel 2.1; Amos 5.18; Zeph 1.11-17; Zech 14.1; Acts 2.20; 1 Thess 4.16; 2 Thess 2.2-3; and the context of 1.10 here.

REV 2 – MESSAGES TO THE ASSEMBLIES

2.9 – Jews and are not…synagogue of Satan. Many ways to interpret this verse. Could Jews and are not refer to the Judaizers who said you must be physically circumcised? Are they Jews who have rejected Yahshua? Are they Christians who refuse to cross over to the feasts of the Lord?

2.15 – Nicolaitans – According to early church fathers Irenaeus (a disciple of John) and Hippolytus (a disciple of Irenaeus) the Nicolaitans were founded by Nicolaus, the proselyte of Antioch, who was one of the seven deacons chosen to wait on tables in Acts 6.5. Nicolaus was a Gnostic. Nicolaitan means = control of the people.

2.17 – White stone – In ancient times, white and black stones were used as a means of acquittal and condemnation, as in Urim and Thummim, of the High Priest in Ex 28.30.

2.20 – Jezebel = False teacher with no morals. Harlot.

2.26 – power over nations…the saints will rule and reign with Yahshua in the Millennial Kingdom (MK).

REV 3 – MESSAGES TO THE ASSEMBLIES

3.7 – Key = power and authority

3.19 – Chasten = Greek = paideuo and refers to training or educating a child including the act of discipline or punishment. Those whom Yahweh loves He guides through admonition, correction, and training.

REV 4 – THE THRONE ROOM IN HEAVEN

This chapter describes heaven as Yahweh’s throne room and a place of divine council and government. Note that there are no people who have died present. There are only heavenly beings there.

REV 5 – THE SCROLL AND THE WORTHY LAMB

5.3 – the phrase…“neither under the earth,” is not found in the oldest known copy of the Bible the Codex Sinaiticus.

5.10 – “We shall reign on the earth.” During the MK (Isa 11.1) the saints will dwell on the earth (John 3.13) not in heaven. Those who are found worthy rule and reign with Yahshua. Ps 37; Isa 61.6; Matt 5.5; 1 Peter 2.9; Rev 20.6.

 

REV 6 – SIX SEALS

6.1-8 - The first four horses are: White = deception in government or false ministers of government. Red = war. Black = famine. Pale = khloros = greenish, green = death. Note: the flags of most Arab countries, including those that surround Israel, are white, red, green and black in color!

6.9 – The fifth seal = martyrdom. Some saints will find protection in the wilderness during the Great Tribulation while others will die as a testimony or witness of their faith. Isa 26.20; Zeph 2.3; Rev 12.14; Rev 13.7; 14.13; Dan 7.21.

6.10 – And they cried. This is a metaphor or figure of speech similar to when Abel’s blood cried out to Yahweh in Genesis 4.10. When we die we sleep in the grave.

6.12 – The sixth seal represents a great earthquake and celestial signs that occur with Yahshua’s second coming (Matt 24.29).

6.17 – the great day of his wrath = Day of the Lord…ref: Rev 1.10

REV 7 – 144,000 SEALED; THE GREAT MULTITUDE

7.3 - sealed = to stamp with a signet or private mark for security or preservation. The servants are sealed at the commencement of the Great Tribulation. Rev 7.14; 13.5. Also see Ezekiel 9 for the “Mark of God.”

7.5 – the tribe of Dan is missing due to their apostasy and idolatry. Ref; Joshua 18.1, 30.

7.9 – This great multitude are not the 144,000 but an innumerable group that comes out of the Great Tribulation and is washed in the blood of the Lamb.

7.13 – Elders = members of the celestial divine council. Revelation 4

7.14 – these are those who go through the great tribulation during the last 3.5 years of the 7 year covenant the Anti-Messiah establishes with many nations (Dan7.27). Note: Not raptured, these saints go through it. Raptured out is false doctrine that is not ever validated by scripture.

REV 8 – THE SEVENTH SEAL OPENED; FIRST FOUR TRUMPETS

8.8 – a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea…In scripture we see a mountain as representing Law or government. Seas would be the nations. A burning mountain (Sinai, where the law was given) thrown into the sea (the nations) and a third part of the sea became blood. Yahweh’s law has been disregarded by the nations and now there is great judgment in the earth. Yahshua was our blood sacrifice for our sin…sin is trespass against the law…we are saved by his blood…now the wicked are shedding their blood. Very figurative portion of scripture here.

REV 9 – FIFTH AND SIXTH TRUMPETS

9.4 – neither any green thing left out of the Codex Sinaiticus.

9.11 – Abaddon = Hebrew = a destroying angel. Greek = Apollyon.

REV 10 – THE ANGEL AND THE LITTLE BOOK

John is told to eat the little book and prophesy before many nations.

REV 11 – THE TWO WITNESSES; THE SEVENTH TRUMPET

11.1 – Temple – Greek = nahos – used of the temple at Jerusalem, the sacred edifice itself.

11.2 – Gentiles = a race, a tribe, as in foreign non-Jewish one.

11.3 – Two witnesses. Two individuals…and possibly Judah and Ephraim as witnesses to the nations.

11.8 – the great city – Jerusalem will be spiritually like Sodom and Egypt; a New World Order, false apostate, immoral and false worshiping church. Human secular in all forms.

11.11 – the spirit of life - they are resurrected from the dead. Does this coincide with the return of Yeshua and the dead rising from the graves at His second coming? Note that the 7^th and final trumpet immediately sounds in verse 11.5.

11.19 – the Ark of the Covenant – this is the ark in heaven. The one Moses built was a replica of this ark (Ex 25.9).

REV 12 – THE WOMAN, THE CHILD, AND THE DRAGON

This chapter covers a great expanse of time: Israel in a glorified state, Satan’s fall, the birth and resurrection of Messiah, war in heaven, and the assembly being taken into the wilderness during tribulation times.

12.14 – Although no man knows the exact day of Messiah’s return we can speculate on the season. We believe the fall feasts are the season of Yahshua’s return at the sound of the last trumpet at the Feast of Trumpets (the fall of the year). Prior to this many will be taken to a place of safety in the wilderness for three and a half years (the wilderness can be any place of protection). Counting backward three and a half years this time of protection would begin around the season of the Feast of Unleavened Bread. It was during this feast that Israel was taken into the wilderness as they fled from Egypt.

The Hebrew word for feast is Miqra = rehearsal, as in rehearsal for a future event.

12.17 – The dragon was wroth with the woman – that is enraged, become exasperated. Makes war with the remnant who obey the commandments of Yahweh – the saints (believers) will both obey commandments of Yahweh and hold to the testimony of Yahshua the Messiah.